Stephen P. Molnar said the following on 12/14/2011 11:01 AM:
I have just installed 12.1 on my 64bit AMD CPU Linux computer. The machine has been in service for quite some time and has had previous openSUSE distributions starting with 10.x. Consequently there are numb of partitions that show up in the Yast/Partitioner/Available Storage (a screen shot is attached) that are not in /etc/fstab. This is very bothersome as I have information and programs that I can't access.
Through trial and error, a very dangerous thing for me to do as I am neither a hardware nor an OS person - only a user, I have written a script to mount the partitions. Running the script as su in my user persona I can mount the partitions.
If I reopen Yast/Partitioner after running the script the mount points are there.
My question is what do I do at this point that isn't going to corrupt the system? Up to this point I have been aborting the Partitioner.
It will corrupt things if you tell it to. Do you recall what you did in the progression of upgrades from 10.x to the present? I do. The installer recognised existing partitions and file system. You tell it what you think they should be called and where you think the should be mounted and NOT TO REFORMAT THEM and it will build a new fstab according to WHAT YOU TELL IT. That is why I have a separate /home and few other partitions that hold things like development work, the source and data for my wikis and other services that run under Apache (/srv) and things like that. There are also things like /local and /opt and some parts of /usr/share where I've installed global stuff like icon sets. You might also want to preserve wherever your (incoming) mailboxes are if, like me, you use the INBOX as a LBW. So if you have NOT factored those out to separate partitions then telling the installer to reformat "/" is going to ZAP a lot, and not telling it to reformat "/' might have untoward consequences. Now do you people understand why I use LVM and have lots and lots of partitions? Its not just resiliency about backups, its resiliency in the face of upgrades. And yes it was my own stupid fault when stuff I valued got zapped because I was not doing this. I learnt from unfortunate experience. Why don't you learn from my experience? -- The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. -- Nathaniel Borenstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org